K. Walker

If Jesus' Resurrection Were A Hoax

Canada politicians have lost their minds. A new bill if passed considers parts of the Bible hate speech. The bill may remove or weaken a religious exemption. I hope Canadians conservatives are making noise about Bill C-9.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the organization faces collapse without continued U.S. funding, which contributes roughly $2.2 billion to its core budget. "the United Nations is on the brink of total collapse"

Instead of CARNEY removing the federal tax on gas and diesel for CANADIANS, he sends $51 MILLION to Ukraine 🤯 ELBOWS UP

@jarvis_best I hope not! Killing Canadians is now what the Canadian government does.

The Americans better not ritualistically sacrifice the Canadian guy in space 😡😡😡

apparently, the moon is now unceded indigenous territory

Canada is becoming a feudal state.

Here’s how Mark Carney has been BLEEDING the Canadian economy since 2009 And I won’t use any financial lingo so every Canadian understands what was done to them. 🏦 The Bank of Canada’s governor sets interest rates. An interest rate is what you pay the bank for every dollar you borrow. Carney decided what that interest rate was between 2009-2013 If you borrow $100 at 12%, you pay back $112. That’s expensive, so people borrow less. But at 0.25%, you pay back $100.25. Borrowing is basically free. So everyone borrows more. 📉 In 2008, Carney inherited a rate of 4.5%. By 2009 he’d slashed it to 0.25%. The LOWEST rate in Canadian history! He held rates at or below 1% for FIVE straight years. Here’s what that did to Canadian families: In 2007 (before Carney), the average household owed $1.40 for every dollar earned. By 2012, under his rock-bottom rates, it hit $1.63. The HIGHEST in Canadian history. He stood at the podium and called it “the greatest domestic threat to the economy.” Then did nothing to stop it. Today? $1.75 for every dollar earned. $3.07 TRILLION in total household debt. The worst of any G7 country. Here’s why low rates destroy the every-day person: 💸 Your savings earn nothing. $50,000 in the bank at 0.25% earns you $125 a year. You can’t save your way to a down payment when your money doesn’t grow. But investors? They borrow millions at almost zero cost and buy the houses you can’t afford. Cheap borrowing sent housing prices through the roof. A home that cost $300,000 in 2009 costs $900,000 today.🏡📈 And banks? They borrow from the Bank of Canada for almost nothing and lend to you at 5-6%. The gap is their profit. Lower rates = fatter bank profits. Low rates are a wealth transfer from people who save to people who borrow. From working families to banks and investors. Carney knew this. He warned about it. He never fixed it. He left for London in 2013. But he didn’t leave empty-handed. He left behind his protégé. Tiff Macklem (the current Bank of Canada Governor) was Carney’s handpicked #2. Carney personally appointed him in 2010. RBC called them “the tandem” that ran Canada’s monetary policy. In June 2020, Macklem became Governor. Two months later, Carney started advising Trudeau on COVID economic recovery. 🫂Carney’s man running the Bank. Carney advising the PM on the spending. Then Macklem turned on the money printer. Here’s what that means in plain English: normally the government borrows money by selling bonds (IOUs + a little extra) and Investors buy them. 😷But during COVID, the Bank of Canada started buying those bonds with money it CREATED OUT OF THIN AIR. New Canadian dollars that didn’t exist yesterday. Imagine paying your credit card by printing cash in your basement. Your debt disappears. But every dollar in your neighbour’s wallet is now worth less.💵 Canada printed money faster than any other G7 country. The result: - Groceries up 25%. - Rent doubled. - Gas through the roof. The Canadian dollar (worth MORE than the US dollar in 2011) now worth 72 cents. A 30% collapse. 📈 Everything you buy from outside Canada costs 30% more just because of this. That’s not inflation. That’s a policy choice. And now, what’s Carney’s biggest announcement since becoming Prime Minister? He builds a $45B infrastructure bank, designed with Brookfield and McKinsey. 🙃 He allocates $15B to a fund investing in the sectors his own Brookfield holdings profit from. He “replaces” the $390M Liberal slush fund, but actually just renamed it and made it $5B instead. Same minister, bigger budget. He broke the economy, his protégé made it worse and now he’s back to “fix” it. But it’s your money and your livelihood on the line, while he pumps his own bags once more. This didn’t happen by accident. But we don’t have to let him get away with it. Every share, every retweet, every comment will help expose him. 🇨🇦

All of this is a lie, so naturally Megyn Kelly promotes it. The U.S./Israel did not bomb some drinking "water source". They bombed a heavy-water facility, which has NOTHING to do with drinking water. Heavy water is water in which the hydrogen atoms are mostly with deuterium, a heavier form of hydrogen. It is used in nuclear facilities. Mario Nawfal is a liar. He intentionally spreads disinformation.

@MVdlJCardinal @liberal_party Prosperity of the Carney family is better than ever. The rest of us... eh, not so much.

@liberal_party Why can't Canadians afford to feed their own kids? I thought prosperity was better than ever? Which is it?

With the National School Food Program, our new Liberal government is ensuring 400,000 more kids every year get the healthy meals they need in school — and delivering real savings for families across Canada.

Downloaded an app this morning It asked me to accept the terms and conditions 197 pages I read them Because that's what I do By page 12 I'd granted them an irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free license to my data That's the same language I see in contracts worth more than my house For a free app By page 41 I'd agreed to resolve all disputes through binding arbitration in the state of Delaware I've never been to Delaware No jury trial No class action No discovery process They gave themselves more legal protection than most Fortune 500 vendor agreements I've reviewed By page 87 they'd reserved the right to modify the agreement at any time without notice So I agreed to terms that can change after I agreed to them I've reviewed contracts with better reps and warranties than this By page 134 they could terminate my account at their sole discretion with no obligation to refund anything Unilateral termination with no cure period My board doesn't even have that No one reads this They designed it that way 197 pages for an app that tracks my water intake I've signed deals with shorter contracts My wife asked why I've been staring at my phone for two hours I said "a contract disguised as a checkbox" She looked at the ceiling Make common sense common again Sent from my iPhone

Ontario doctors are under orders to lie on your death certificate. Not shade the truth. Lie. Here it is. Official. In writing. From the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. "The illness, disease or disability leading to the request for MAID is to be recorded as the cause of death. The certificate cannot include any reference to MAID or the medications administered." Source: CPSO: Medical Certificates of Death in the MAID Context

@ryangerritsen This is a lot more than I thought, actually. Do we know what percentage is actually functional?

One of the best visuals of the US vs Canada's military strength. I had no idea just how ill-equipped we really were. We should be incredibly thankful that they are our neighbors.

‼️HOLY CRAP HERE IT IS @grok how much money would the government of Canada save if they euthanize old people 3 years before their natural death? OAS. CPP. and health care savings. Also, how much would doctors make from this?

This is beautiful!

This sounds like a Monty Python sketch. "Now say 'Ni'!"

Is the Lord of the Rings Christian? Is it pagan? Is everyone on the internet an idiot? The answer to all three of these questions is yes. Sometimes. Maybe. It's a possibly dead cat in a box situation. The Lord of the Rings is both Christian and Pagan until you open the book and the cat dies. Since my wife is out of town and can't tell me to stop arguing on the internet, buckle up: First: what does it mean for something to be Christian? The disagreement over if a fantasy novel can be Christian if it's not explicitly so comes down to definitions and somewhat to more fundamental issues like your philosophy on art and sub-creation. Which is more Christian: a composition by Bach, or The Newsboys' "They don't serve breakfast in Hell?" One was created by a Christian (well, a Lutheran, but I'll allow it) honoring God through the act of sub-creation, and the other explicitly mentions issues of faith in its lyrics, but isn't transcendent or beautiful (sorry, Newsboys fans). Does it honor God more when a Christian creates something beautiful with skill and excellence for His glory — or when a Christian creates something not to the best of his ability but it says the word "Jesus" 58x in the chorus? But is Lord of the Rings Christian? I think the issue is a little easier with Lord of the Rings, because it certainly has a message, values, and a worldview that is communicated, unlike an instrumental composition. It has transcendent truths that point us to truth, goodness, and beauty. No, Lord of the Rings is not explicitly Christian in the sense that I would expect people to get saved from it, or churches to do Bible studies on it (though I am sure they have lol). But can a fantasy novel written by a Christian glorify God with its themes? Can it make people think deeply about creation, reality, our place in this world, our duty to do what's right? Yeah, it certainly can. And that's a very noble and Christian thing for a piece of literature to do. Not to mention - the act of creating something beautiful is itself a "Christian" act. Christ created you, whether or not you're a Christian. When you create something, you're reflecting the image of God in the act of sub-creation. I guess the question "Is it Christian?" is ultimately beside the point. In one sense, no; in another sense, it's more Christian than a Jesus is my Boyfriend song on the Christian radio. It's not Christian the way we postmoderns have commoditized the word. It probably was Christian in the way the premoderns thought about the term, art, and creating in the image of God. So maybe. Lol. (Hope this helps!) But is Lord of the Rings pagan? When are you going to wrap this up? I'm almost done. So this one is another yes and no. Saying "Lord of the Rings is pagan!" without any nuance is something you only say if you're trying to get attention on the internet (something I would never do). But yes, Tolkien does draw on pagan myths to tell the story. He was doing what Christians have always done - conquer and redeem the things pagans do to the glory of God. Baptizing the pagans' creative works and making them new. (And by the way, is Narnia pagan? It has fauns, satyrs, dryads, naiads, centaurs, IT HAS ACTUAL LITERAL PAGAN GODS LIKE BACCHUS AND RIVER GODS AND WATER SPIRITS.) So yes, Lord of the Rings is very much is "pagan." But Tolkien did this intentionally, because he saw Christ reflected in the great mythologies of the world. And he wanted to create another, one that of course embodied his Christian worldview more explicitly than the myths he drew from. Which brings us to the side note of allegory vs. myth. I think there are two sides of the horse you can fall off in the discussion about Tolkien and allegory. You can try to read way too much into things - "Aragorn is Jesus" "the Ring is the Atomic bomb" "Goldberry is a snack" etc. But you can go the other way too - "Tolkien said he hated allegory, so you can't draw a connection between anything in the books and real-life influences, virtues, vices, and so on." So while I think many people are aware of Tolkien's refutal of those who tried to read it allegorically, it's not so cut and dry as "Tolkien hated allegory and that is that." Allegory spills into myth and myth spills into allegory. Even as the Narnia books went on, Lewis began to develop Narnia's own mythology and include things that aren't necessarily representative of any one virtue, vice, or person. His simple allegory of Christ's sacrifice became more than that. And so I believe it is somewhat opposite with Tolkien. Inspired by the myths of the (Scandinavian, mostly) pagans, he set out to write a mythology his people could call their own. He wanted the Anglo-Saxons to have their own pantheon and their own mythical heroes like Thor and Icarus you could drop into a conversation. (An important point here - yes, England had the Arthurian legends, but they are very explicitly Christian. He felt myth cannot be transcendant if it includes explicit references to your religious beliefs.) Holy crap dude this is X; you used to be limited to 140 characters on here. Will you get to the point? Yeah yeah anyway, this is why Tolkien took almost all mentions of religion out of Middle-earth, other than a couple of small references and vestiges. Myth is larger than life. Middle-earthians lived in the world of gods and angels. As we do, but them much more overtly. Frodo is frightened and wishes he wasn't born during these times. Samwise is good-hearted and stout and loyal but struggles with showing mercy on the pitiful. Gollum has good in him, but has sat in the darkness for so long it's barely a whisper deep in his soul. With noble intent, Boromir gives into temptation for but a moment and nearly ruins everything. If you can't relate to these things, Christian or not, well, you might just be a lizard person. This is the strength of myth. It is far more universal than allegory. Allegory has its place, of course—the Narnia series and The Pilgrim's Progress are some of my favorite books. But the broad appeal of Lord of the Rings is because myth points us to truths that God has put in the hearts of all men. Myth transcends cultures and time and space. This is not because allegory is "too Christian" and myth has taken out the Christian truths. It is because myth speaks to the soul in a way someone who has not yet heard of Christ can appreciate, because God has written eternity in their hearts. Ultimately, while there are no 1:1 Christ figures in Lord of the Rings, I would argue that you can draw pretty strong connections between elements of the works and elements of Christianity. Things he intended us to find. See, because Tolkien believed even the pagan myths pointed to Christ—why wouldn't a myth written by a strong, devout Catholic? There is a lot more to say on all this, and I'm barely touching on some stuff here. I don't remember what my point was. I'm gonna go play Resident Evil 4.

So sorry that Lib women in the U.S. can't figure this out. Married women in other western democracies have been voting for over 100 years.

She's bragging about being a serial killer... Let that sink in.

@StewskyAndHutch @jonesville Some of us in the RoC (Rest of Canada for our American friends) are cheering you guys on and checking Redfin.

@jonesville Most Canadians except some of us in Alberta don't care...

🇨🇦 Canada: A majority of MPs voted to pass a bill that will allow the criminalization of religious expression and belief when quoting parts of the Bible, including about homosexuality and gender. Bill C-9 has been blasted by constitutional experts as allowing empowered police and the government to go after those deemed to have violated a person’s “feelings.” Canada is quickly turning into an Orwellian version of the United States, which is probably where we would have ended up under Kamala Harris. Source: @LifeSite